FireBlade Coffeehouse: Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll was a pseudonym for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, mathematician, 1832-1898.

Alice’s Adventures Everywhere

Alice’s Adventures Underground includes Dodgson’s sketches, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland includes Sir John Tenniel’s. Through the Looking Glass contains merely Dodgson’s wonderful text.

Sylvie & Bruno

Sylvie & Bruno and Sylvie & Bruno Concluded were Dodgson’s attempt to go beyond Alice and create a work of lasting beauty. Sylvie has been mostly ignored, but I find it a strange and wonderful story. The religious commentary remains fresh to this day.

The Hunting of the Snark

What I tell you three times is true.

Phantasmagoria

One winter night, at half-past nine, cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, and supper, with cigars and wine, was waiting in the study...

A Sea Dirge

I think we should put this poem on all the “Welcome to San Diego” signs.

Upon the Lonely Moor

It is always interesting to ascertain the sources from which our great poets obtained their ideas: this motive has dictated the publication of the following: painful as its appearance must be to the admirers of Wordsworth and his poem of “Resolution and Independence”.

Wise Words About Letter Writing

Writing letters is an art in itself. Carroll prefers it to be a science. A very strange science... by the way folks, Carroll’s dead. Been dead for a hundred years. Whether you love this, hate this, or want to know how to write a marriage proposal, Charles Dodgson no longer cares.

In the Shadow of the Dreamchild

“The author of ‘Alice’ was... a normal, if less than perfect, man who may have had the misfortune to love the wrong woman.” According to the author, “Lewis Carroll was not the tragic deviant all previous biographers have assumed him to be. He was not in love with Alice Liddell or obsessed with little girls... The objects of his intense sexual desire were women, full-blooded, ‘tall and lithe’.”
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Inventing Wonderland

A book investigating the culture and individuals that produced some of our best children’s literature: J.M. Barrie, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Kenneth Grahame, and A.A. Milne. That’s Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Wind in the Willows, and Winnie the Pooh. I have not yet read this book, but if you’re looking for assistance in your paper, book report, or thesis, the description indicates it might be useful. I have had one report, however, that it is “very inaccurate and just a confused rehash of old myth”, so caveat emptor.
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Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll’s work, like that of J. M. Barrie, is often disneyfied for children, but when read raw is complex and fascinating.
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Lewis Carroll OneList

A Lewis Carroll mailing list, for the discussion of him, his books, and Alice.

Lewis Carroll Website

The official page of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America. Full of Lewis Carroll links and information.

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Jerry